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Re: Pine, and Rxvt.




On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq
> <jplejacq@quoininc.com> writes:
> >On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> >
> >> rxvt -fg grey -bg black
> >> it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
> >> 'clear'. when I try and run pico I get the following error: 
> >
> >It appears that your terminfo entry for rxvt is not correct.  First
> >make sure that all the files in /etc/terminfo are accessible.  You may 
> 
> I have the Rxvt and Ncurses files both from HAMM as of a week ago...
> Where is the terminfo file located../etc? ... when I do a set | most  it
> lists TERM=xterm-color ... is this right ... I don't know if I even have
> a true xterm package installed ... could this be the proble ... (Maybe a
> libc5 based xterm and a libc6 based rxvt conflict??) ... sorry I'm not at

I have ncurses-base_1.9.9g-7 installed and pine works nicely except
for a changes I made to handle Backspace.  You should have the files:

  /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt
  /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-m


> >> Also when I start pine I get the following error warning "Can't open
> >> mailbox lock, Access is READONLY" and "Folder Inbox is opened with 2
> >> messages READONLY"
> >
> >Do you have another pine process accessing the same mailbox?
> 
> Nope. I think it could have something to do with permissions ... what
> should the permissions be on the mail spool /var/spool/mail/ewigin/*

Mine is:

  -rw-rw----   1 jplejacq mail       154142 Jan  4 14:54 jplejacq

-- 
Jean Pierre



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